LSU’s Flau’jae Johnson’s promising rap career seems to have hit a snag after the athlete’s new track references the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
One month has passed since LSU were crowned national champions in women’s college basketball. However, Flau’jae Johnson, the team’s rookie star, has lost her championship glow since controversy replaced it.
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Johnson, who plays No. 4 for the LSU Lady Tigers, dropped off her remix of Latto’s “Put It On Da Floor” on Tuesday (May 9).
Unfortunately, it’s not the bumping beat that caught people’s attention — it’s the lyrics in which she references 9/11, otherwise known as the September 11th terrorist attack on New York City’s World Trade Center.
“In this 911, blowing smoke just like them towers,” she spits, playing on words with a Porsche motor vehicle.
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There has been a retraction of the video from social media since then, and the school has responded, noting that Johnson did not intend to “offend or upset anyone” with the lyrics.
“We spoke with Flau’jae this evening, and while she never intended to offend or upset anyone with her lyrics, she expressed sincere remorse for any possibility of a misunderstanding and immediately took the video down. We will learn and grow from this experience together,” LSU told Fox News Digital/OutKick in a statement Tuesday night.
Outside of her burgeoning basketball career, Flau’jae Johnson is a promising rapper who’s signed to JAY-Z’s Roc Nation as both an artist and an athlete. She released her debut album On My Own in 2019 and has since dropped several EPs and singles.
Before that, she appeared in the Jermaine Dupri-helmed Lifetime reality show The Rap Game when she was just 12, and made it to the quarterfinals of America’s Got Talent at 14.
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Flau’jae’s auspicious talent is perhaps no surprise considering music is in her blood. The teen’s father, Jason “Camoflauge” Johnson, was an up-and-coming rapper whose 2002 album Keep It Real cracked the Billboard independent albums chart.
Six months before Flau’jae was born, though, tragedy struck when Jason was shot and killed in front of his recording studio in Savannah, Georgia.
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